On Dec. 10, 1977, the Soviet union launched the first crew to complete a long-duration mission to the Salyut 6 space station.

NASA’s iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the ...

NASA focussed on reducing space costs, while the Soviet Union viewed the space shuttle ... and-found space tomato on the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches ...

A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules launched separately and brought together in orbit. A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when ...

Sergei Krikalev was in space for so long that when he came back down to Earth his country was technically no longer there ...

[Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of spacecraft ... stowed away on the International Space Station.

In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station, code-named Almaz, which secretly carried a 23-mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon. According to Soviet cosmonauts, tests run on this very ...

The ISS has been occupied by people on a continuous basis ever since then, surpassing the 13 years (ten of which consecutive) that people have inhabited the Russian-Soviet space station Mir, according ...